While the snow not only covered Finnish campuses – but also our Delft campus – huge groups of students filled up (and warmed up) our lecture halls and design studios. Being responsible for their 30 ECTS curriculum this semester made me focus on something else than research, lectures abroad and simple things like replying all those (voice)mail messages.

Spring semester started with 320 students

The most challenging part of the semester – 320 student playing a management game – ended today. This means I have a little more time to enjoy and distribute the second edition of the book (1000 more copies + 1, see photo), starting with sending 130 copies to the UK – for attendants of AUDE conference where I will be speaking – and 120 to universities in the Netherlands.

our TU Delft library after the first day of snow (February 3)

In the meantime I also included more ‘tour dates’ to my schedule (see TOUR). I still can’t believe how international this research has become in less than one year… I never thought I would bring the book all the way to South Korea, and in the next year I will do that… twice. However overwhelming, I am also struggling with an overload of (international) opportunities and limited time. My mailbox is exploding and I feel bad about not being able to respond to everyone personally.

the second edition of the book arrived last month (+1000 copies)

Nonetheless, the busy schedule still allows time to publish. Deadlines still work for me, apparently. I will soon add a separate PUBLICATIONS menu to this blog, to split the written publications like articles in journals and magazines from the other DOWNLOADS like hand-outs of presentations. This month there will be two new publications: a book chapter in “Creative Knowledge Cities” (release February 2012, Edward Elgar Publishing – http://www.e-elgar.co.uk) and an article in CELE Exchange (OECD Centre for Educational Learning Environments). I will upload the latter as soon as it is released.

One response to “From 320 students to 1001 books”

hi alexandra,
theo vd voordt told me to have a brief look at your work, to look for possible insights that could be usefull in the last part of my PhD…
wow! he was more than right, a brief look won’t be sufficient.
dort

To order the 2011 BOOK "Managing the university campus" (Den Heijer, 2011):
- The paperback edition of the book is available for order at Eburon Academic Publishers (€49,-, excl. shipping).
- The ebook edition (€9,99) is available at Eburon, Amazon.com and for iPad at the iBookstore.

For more articles, papers, book chapters about managing the university campus, see PUBLICATIONS.

About this blog

Author Alexandra den Heijer (associate professor, TU Delft) started this blog when her book "Managing the university campus" was launched on March 4, 2011. The blog describes the process after the book launch: the publicity, many lectures, articles, papers, new research and visits to campuses all over the world.